Jets shoot down surveillance balloon near Myrtle Beach

Jet contrails and smoke were seen over the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, area on Saturday, February 4, as President Joe Biden confirmed to media that a Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down by United States military craft.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced it closed airspace above the South Carolina and North Carolina coastal region on Saturday “to support the Department of Defense in a national security effort.”

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